Six Feet Under gets the chop

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Six Feet Under, the quirky television series about a
California family that runs a funeral parlour, will end its run
after its upcoming fifth season.

Alan Ball, creator and executive producer of the ensemble drama
starring Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy and Rachel
Griffiths, says he feels the show has run its course.

"Working on Six Feet Under has been enormously fulfilling
creatively, but if the show is about anything, it's about the fact
that everything comes to an end," Ball said in a statement.

Production on the final season is set to begin next week. HBO
confirmed on Monday it would be the show's last season, but hasn't
said when it will air.

"I will miss working with such enormously talented writers,
cast, staff and crew and I'll always be grateful to HBO for
allowing and encouraging us to tell the story we set out to tell in
a challenging and uncompromising way," Ball said.